8.243 TIME8 — Time function (64-bit)

Description:

Returns the current time encoded as an integer (in the manner of the
function time(3) in the C standard library). This value is
suitable for passing to CTIME, GMTIME, and LTIME.

Warning: this intrinsic does not increase the range of the timing
values over that returned by time(3). On a system with a 32-bit
time(3), TIME8 will return a 32-bit value, even though
it is converted to a 64-bit INTEGER(8) value. That means
overflows of the 32-bit value can still occur. Therefore, the values
returned by this intrinsic might be or become negative or numerically
less than previous values during a single run of the compiled program.